ficticons: Venus, from the Marvel Comic Agents of Atlas, jumping for joy. (venus yay)ficticons ([personal profile] ficticons) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2011-02-09 02:52 am UTC
Current mood: cheerful
Entry tags:char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: sentry/bob reynolds, char: venus, creator: carlo pagulayan, creator: jeff parker, publisher: marvel comics, title: agents of atlas
For [personal profile] blackruzsa, who requested any of a series of moments mentioned in an article entitled "The Balut in a Superhero's Underpants".

It says that "[i]f the Americans have their Easter Eggs, we Filipinos have our Balut Eggs. (Okay, I just made up that term, but it seems appropriate anyway.) Balut Eggs are those moments when Filipinos (or something Pinoy) suddenly pops up in foreign movies, TV shows, novels, and comic books."

It goes on to list several of those moments that appear in American comic books. I was intrigued by one of them - in Marvel Comics’ “Agents of Atlas,” Mt. Pinatubo erupts again and Sentry flies in just in time to rescue a damaged Phivolcs helicopter - so I went to do a little digging and to my surprise, I found I had it.

Three and approximately 3/4ths scans from Dark Reign Agents of Atlas #1. Written by Jeff Parker, pencilled by Carlo Pagulayan (a Filipino artist, as the article notes), coloured by Jana Schirmer.



And here's the page [personal profile] blackruzsa wanted.

It's interesting - I guess I didn't quite understand what I was seeing when I first read the page, because I didn't remember it right away when I saw the sentence about it in the article. I had to look through my Dark Reign trade to see when Bob Reynolds could have gone to the Philippines...and also to have another look at the volcano erupting. I thought 'surely I'd have remembered that if I'd read it!' But no, apparently I hadn't. The author of that article certainly seems to have had an eye for particular detail, though - or else they must have had a keen spotter working for/writing to them.





So there you are, [personal profile] blackruzsa! I hope you enjoyed it. :)


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2011-02-11 02:15 am UTC (link)
Yeah, what [personal profile] sailorlibra said. And it's not like we haven't seen the downside of the use of her powers - for example from an encounter with an Atlas offshoot group - or what happens when she starts crying, which is something that an issue of the original Agents of Atlas miniseries showed quite clearly. She doesn't always use them unreservedly, either (the AoA part of Dark Reign: Who do you trust? has a few panels of this).

I would say, though, that if you're not reading anything she's in just because she's in it, you might be missing out on something you could like. For example the Agents of Atlas title (which was, IMO, brilliant) or neat little moments like the story shown in the second and third scans in this post.

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